23.2 The Shell tool

Type the extended command
Meta+X Shell in any Editor window (or any other window based on an editor, such as the Listener).

Figure 23.1 The Shell tool

The
Operations
menu contains the following commands which send UNIX signals to the shell process. These only work on UNIX and UNIX-based systems, including Mac OS X.

Choose
Operations > Interrupt to send a break signal to the shell process. This stops the current task and returns control to the UNIX command line in the Shell tool, if necessary.

Choose
Operations > Suspend to send a suspend signal to the shell process. This suspends the current task so that you can continue entering commands at the UNIX command line. To resume the task, type
fg at the UNIX command line in the Shell tool. Alternatively, type
bg
at the command line to force a task to run in the background.